/ Town Hall
Tuesday 30th August 2022
CALVIÀ TOWN HALL COMMEMORATES THE MUNICIPAL SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME 30TH ANNIVERSARY WHICH HAS ENABLED AROUND 4.000 STUDENTS IN THE MUNICIPALITY TO BENEFIT FROM THIS INITIATIVE OVER THESE THIRTY YEARS
During the event, the diplomas were delivered to the more than 80 current scholarship holders
Calvià Town Hall held an event this afternoon to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Municipal Scholarship Programme, which has allowed around 3.850 students to benefit from this initiative, which began in 1993 with the aim of improving their training and facilitating access to the labour world.
The event was attended by women and men who participated in the Calvià Scholarship Programme over the years, such as Juan Antonio Mayoral, Santi Muñoz or Bárbara Montoya, who recalled their experience while they took the scholarship and what it meant for their future labour.
The event was also attended by the more than 80 current scholarship holders from the BECalvià 2021-2022, Get Experience 2021-2022 and Projecta't 2021-2022 internship scholarship programmes, who received their diploma today, as well as representatives of the collaborating companies and municipal departments; former municipal officials who launched the Scholarship Programme; the deputy mayor for Education and Training, Olga Granados; the municipal government team; Dr. Mauricio Mus, vice-rector for Postgraduate Management and Lifelong Learning; Antoni Baos, general director of Vocational Training and Higher Artistic Education of the Govern, and the manager of the Municipal Institute of Education and Libraries (IMEB), Borja Martorell.
In her speech, the president of the Balearic Islands, Francina Armengol, addressed the «Students like those who are here today to receive your diploma that accredits this training: the first thing I want to do is congratulate you personally, wish you the best of good luck from now on, and also assure you that both Calvià Town Hall and the Govern de les Illes Balears will continue to be by your side to help you as much as possible, both to complete your training and to access the labour market».
The mayor of Calvià, Alfonso Rodríguez Badal, highlighted "the strength and power of the Calvià Scholarship Programme that began in 1993 and that in the last seven years has received a very important boost, multiplying its budget so much that it has experienced an increase of more than 500% in the last seven years, as well as the number of students benefited by the different calls, thus generating a multitude of opportunities for the youth of the municipality. The mayor, who pointed out that betting on education in Calvià is betting on the present, the future and the social cohesion of the municipality, concluded that "The generations of today are surely the best trained and what we must do as public administrations it is to give them the opportunities to develop all the knowledge acquired in improving the municipality, and take advantage of all that human flow».
THE CALVIÀ SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMME
The Programme began in 1993 with the signing between Calvià Town Hall and the University of the Balearic Islands of the first collaboration framework agreement, in which 12 practical training scholarships were called, during the summer months, in different municipal departments.
The good results obtained allowed the renewal and extension of the agreements. Thus, in 1995 the Calvià University Centre (CUC) was created and the first scholarships for CUC instructors were announced. In 1996 a new agreement was signed that opened the programme to the participation of private companies.
The last of the agreements, signed in 2020, includes the current configuration of the Scholarship Programme, enabling university students from the municipality to carry out practical training scholarships, both in winter and summer, in companies or in municipal departments. Currently, there are 4 types of practical scholarships: Socioeducativa CUC, BECalvià, Get Experience and Projecta't.
Over the years, collaboration agreements have been expanded with various universities such as the UNED and other universities on the peninsula.
Calvià Town Hall, through the IMEB, sees education not as a privilege, but as an inalienable and universal right. As one of the most important engines of creative, enterprising, competitive and free societies, it shapes social awareness and generates decision-making capacity. For this reason, from the Municipal Institute of Education and Libraries, actions and measures are also activated that promote and encourage access and continuity of post-compulsory and higher studies, such as financial aid: for vocational training studies admission tests, University admission tests (over 25, 40 and 45 years old), vocational training studies, university degree studies, Erasmus+ mobility and university master's degree studies.
